I love that guy so much. As far as I'm concerned he holds 3 of the 'top 5 comedy' slots of all time. (I will not denigrate any of them by trying to compare them against each other; they are simply 'top 5,' not 'funniest ever,' etc. In no particular order: History of the world pt 1, blazing saddles, and Young Frankenstein.

President_Skroob:I'm still holding out for "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".

urban.derelict:DjangoStonereaver: The man is not just a national treasure, he's a world treasure.

I love that guy so much. As far as I'm concerned he holds 3 of the 'top 5 comedy' slots of all time. (I will not denigrate any of them by trying to compare them against each other; they are simply 'top 5,' not 'funniest ever,' etc. In no particular order: History of the world pt 1, blazing saddles, and Young Frankenstein.

President_Skroob: I'm still holding out for "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".

StoPPeRmobile:urban.derelict: DjangoStonereaver: The man is not just a national treasure, he's a world treasure.

I love that guy so much. As far as I'm concerned he holds 3 of the 'top 5 comedy' slots of all time. (I will not denigrate any of them by trying to compare them against each other; they are simply 'top 5,' not 'funniest ever,' etc. In no particular order: History of the world pt 1, blazing saddles, and Young Frankenstein.

President_Skroob: I'm still holding out for "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".

For me, this is the best explanation of why the farting scene in Blazing Saddles is genius, while most other fart jokes in movies are sophomoric.

A: You know, I hate to pat myself on the back, but cowboys used to swill black coffee and beans. They used to scrape those beans from a tin plate. And we know all about beans and black coffee-that lethal combination. And that's why it works. Farting scenes do not usually work because they're not indigenous.

I was 9 when "history of the world pt1" came out, and i loved it then, and more so now. Even as a child i could see how much fun they were having. I haven't heard anything on Brooks in a while, and wondered if he was now possibly just very old, and lonely. Thank you subby!

Ooba Tooba:I was 9 when "history of the world pt1" came out, and i loved it then, and more so now. Even as a child i could see how much fun they were having. I haven't heard anything on Brooks in a while, and wondered if he was now possibly just very old, and lonely. Thank you subby!

They interviewed him and his son maybe 5 or 8 years ago in an issue of Men's Health; I don't know how much that can help you but -- I wish I could personally thank him for making Blazing Saddles cuz he'd never be able to make a movie like that today.

The last time it was on TV they edited out all the farts and overdubbed horse winnies, and it... made no sense.

And then I bought the book from suburra.com ("You Will Die: the Burden of Modern Taboos") and he mentions in the book (talk about research) the last time Blazing Saddles was on broadcast tv -- something like 1982 or 83 when i was a kid -- and I'd watched it, I remember it very well -- it wasn't funny with the horse whinnies.

/thank FSM for dvds, bittorrent//don't steal///'borrow indefinitely'//you can't take it with you

A: Yes. Sometimes you get very lucky and the set will give you ideas for jokes. When I saw the caveman set on History of the World, it was very primitive. And I immediately thought, 'Well, where do I go to from here? I'd better go to biblical times.' I was going to skip the Bible and go to Rome. I said, 'No, I've got the set, just turn that thing around and it will be the mountaintop, and I did the Moses bit. 'The Lord Jehovah has....these 15...' Crash! I drop one of the tablets. 'Ten, ten commandments.'

Q: Blazing Saddles also makes frequent use of the "N-word." Could you get away with that today?

A: Never. If they did a remake of Blazing Saddles today, they would leave out the N-word. And then, you've got no movie. And I wouldn't have used it so much if I didn't have Richard Pryor with me on the set as one of my writers. And Cleavon Little [as Sheriff Bart] was great. Even though it was allowed, I kept asking Cleavon, 'Is that all right there? Is that too much there? Am I pushing this?' and he'd say, 'No, no, no, it's perfect there.'

That right there is all you need to know about society today. We've turned into a collection of quivering pantywaists, afraid to say anything even midly offensive, lest some PC asshole gets the vapors.

I wish Mel could have gotten with Dave Chappell before he lost his mind to write a sequel. Not just because I enjoy a good N-ear joke but because I would love to see them have Sherrif Bart get elected Governor. I think it would be humorous to see how a conservative white population would react to a man of color in executive office.

"All right... we'll give some land to the nxxxxrs and the chxxks. But we don't want the Irish!"

/he almost missed one of his roles -- HOTW was filmed concurrently with Johnny Dangerously where he plays the pope, filmed in different locations, flights involved//"everyboddy knows, except your mother, and your brother..."/marilou hennerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I saw YF:TM on Broadway with Roger Bart (Carmen Ghia in the 2005 version of The Producers), Megan Mullaly, and Andrea Martin as the Wilder, Kahn, and Leachman roles... I nearly peed myself laughing, it was so good.

/I'm still hoping that the finale comes true, and that Brooks does a Blazing Saddles musical.//Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease